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of conversation is the camp meeting and what is seen and heard there.
From all around come most earnest appeals for meetings....
“To our brethren this meeting has been of the greatest value possi-
ble. It has given them much broader ideas of the work for this time,
and a much deeper Christian experience. After they had been here one
week, they voted almost unanimously to continue yet another week.”
The Review and Herald, March 6, 1894
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“As an outgrowth of the Brighton camp meeting,” Mrs. White
afterward testified, “several churches were raised up. I visited the
church in Williamstown, and rejoiced to see that many had moral
courage to manifest their loyalty to the commandments of God in spite
of the continual opposition and contempt that have been heaped upon
them and upon God’s holy law.
“A church was raised up in Hawthorne, and another in Brighton.
About sixty belonged to these two churches. A large number of new
members have been added to the Prahan church, and to the church in
North Fitzroy. Persons are continually coming in who heard the truth
at the Brighton camp meeting.
“Some will say that these camp meetings are very expensive, and
that the Conference cannot afford to support another such meeting;
but when we look at the three churches that have been organized, and
are prospering in the faith, can we hesitate in answering the question,
‘Will it pay?’ Shall we not raise our voices in decided affirmation, ‘It
will pay’?”
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